Microsoft tries to cash in on Amy’s death
The “Remember Amy Winehouse by downloading the ground-breaking ‘Back to Black’ over at Zune:”
Then “Apologies to everyone if our earlier Amy Winehouse ‘download’ tweet seemed purely commercially motivated. Far from the case, we assure you.” That was Microsoft trying to excuse what must have been the most appalling efforts to capitalise on the death of Amy WineHouse, who died on the weekend from a presumed drug overdose.
‘Bollocks’ it wasn’t,’ as Amy herself might have said.
She was pronounced dead before two ambulance crews arrived at her home in Camden Square northern Londonin Camden Square, north London.
July 27th, 2011 at 1:46 am
Her 5 y.o. album has rocketed her into the weekly top 10, and paid downloads are up 2000%
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP3259b86fc64648eeb6be8fc1e7796b8c.html
How long will it be before autopsy photos get leaked?
July 27th, 2011 at 10:34 am
Looks like there will be a new posthumous album set for release. Is anyone surprised?
http://www.channel4.com/news/third-amy-winehouse-album-for-release
It’s as if the record labels keep a well-cooked plan simmering on the back burner, and when the time comes, unleash a rapid-reaction team to strike while the iron is still hot (or in this case while the body is still warm) and get those discarded out-takes and demos assembled into an album and onto store shelves while fans are still grieving.
The music industry’s “profit above all else” ethic brings to mind the infamous Burke and Hare murders, in which dozens of people were killed just to sell the bodies to a ‘no questions asked’ medical college.
http://www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk/burke.html
July 27th, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Thanks for the link about the Burke and Hare murders. I LOLed when I read that (I am a sicko).
July 28th, 2011 at 2:42 am
just utterly shameless… ughh.
July 28th, 2011 at 7:26 am
I believe if there was any decent company (wishful thinking) that they would give away Amy’s albums for free and free downloads in respect. Making money from someone’s death is fundamentally wrong. A Will is different, but even that is taken advantage of all the time.
July 28th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
“money from someone’s death is fundamentally wrong”
Vietnam, 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and on and on and on….
Our society is built on profiting from death.
But don’t tell the serfs that…. ah heck, go ahead, they never listen any way. You could tell those dumb shits their house is burning down and as the flames lick their neck they will get mad and call you a liar.
July 28th, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Jon, this is an urgent post…I don’t know if this will make it or not or if it’s even that important to you, but I found something that made my heart break:
http://shoryuken.com/2011/06/29/trolling-the-stream-by-ultradavid/
I think you should post this in the games section and get the word out. I don’t mean to rush you when you’re recovering, but I think this is the straw that will really break the camel’s back for the MAFIAA since they are the ones REALLY behind this can of worms.
August 2nd, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Thanks. I’ll Do a post as soon as I can. Cheers!